Cloud Computing

July 1, 2013

DATA CENTER

A Healthy Potential

1 min read

Virtacore, a leading cloud services provider, aims to help clients shift to the cloud. But the company was aware that in order to help others, it first needed to help itself—which meant updating its own infrastructure to provide the best IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS)  to customers. By leveraging innovative technology from Cisco, like the Cisco Unified Computing […]

June 26, 2013

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Unified Fabric Innovations: Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation, Nexus 7700 Switches, and F3 Modules

5 min read

Cisco today introduced Application-Centric Infrastructure as the vision for Next Generation Data Center architecture, built for both today’s physical and virtual workloads as well as tomorrow’s highly dynamic Cloud-based, and performance-intensive big data application environments. Please check out Padmasree Warrior’s blog or Cisco Unified Fabric to learn more.   What I would like to share with you […]

June 4, 2013

DATA CENTER

EMC and Cisco……a Powerful Partnership for Microsoft Private Cloud

2 min read

Guest post by Adrian Simays, Director of Technical Enablement for Microsoft at EMC Corporation. It’s a great week in New Orleans….great food, awesome Jazz, funky hats…and a powerful partnership with Cisco.  And the week is getting even better.…at Microsoft TechEd, EMC announced the latest VSPEX solutions for Microsoft. So what is the big news?  We […]

June 4, 2013

DATA CENTER

Building a Better Data Center with Cisco UCS Solutions, Join us at Red Hat Summit to Hear How

3 min read

Maybe you’re like me, looking for any excuse to hop on a plane to Boston!  In this case, I happen to have a good one, Red Hat Summit, which kicks off on June 11th.   Cisco is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor for the event and we’re showing up in full force with a […]

May 29, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Cloud for Local Government Global Blog Series, Cloud and Law Enforcement (Part One): U.K.’s Facewatch Service Benefits …

2 min read

This is the first in a two-part blog series that examines the opportunities that cloud-based services offer to law enforcement agencies—along with the challenges of this fundamental shift in the way information resources are managed. Police forces have a well-established culture of owning and managing systems directly founded on concerns about security and control of […]

May 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cbeyond: Taking Our SMB Cloud Offering to the Next Level

2 min read

By Chris Ortbals, Senior Vice President, Product Management , Cbeyond Inc.   At the company’s inception in 1999, Cbeyond saw the potential...

May 1, 2013

SECURITY

Coordinated Attacks Against the U.S. Government and Banking Infrastructure

8 min read

Prologue On April 10, 2013, a collective of politically motivated hacktivists announced a round of planned attacks called #OPUSA. These attacks, slated to begin May 7, 2013, are to be launched against U.S.-based targets. #OPUSA is a follow-up to #OPISRAEL, which were a series of attacks carried out on April 7 against Israeli-based targets. Our goal here is to […]

April 25, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Cloud for Local Government Global Blog Series, Be an Agent of Change in Your Organization: Embark on the Cloud Journey

2 min read

Great challenges can bring great opportunities to any business, and with the inevitability of cloud on the horizon, IT organizations will need to embrace this change. Taking the first, second or even third step can be scary, but the return on taking such risks will pay off so long as the IT organization champions the […]

April 24, 2013

DATA CENTER

Introducing MDS 9710 Multilayer Director and MDS 9250i Multiservice Switch – Raising the Bar for Storage Networks

5 min read

The data center landscape has changed dramatically in several dimensions. Server virtualization is almost a defacto standard with a big increase in VM density. And there is a move towards world of many clouds.  Then there is the massive data growth. Some studies show that data is doubling in every 2 years while there is […]